Imagination Press Releases

17 March 2015

Chukong Technologies and Imagination collaborate on the latest version of the Cocos2d-x game engine

London,
UK – March 18th, 2015 – Imagination
Technologies (IMG.L) and Chukong Technologies, creator
and maintainer of the widely adopted open source game engine Cocos2d-x, announce
that the latest version of Cocos2d-x has been fully optimized...Read more

12 January 2015

Connected and smarter products at CES 2015 show how market has transformed

London, UK – 12 January, 2015 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) reports
that an impressively broad range of products at the recent International CES
2015 incorporated one or more of its technologies,
reflecting a growing recognition of Imagination’s...Read more

06 January 2015

Imagination announces PowerVR imaging framework for Android

International
CES, Las Vegas – 6th January, 2015 – Imagination Technologies
(IMG.L) announces a new PowerVR imaging framework for Android: a set of
software components that allow OEMs to integrate the latest computational
photography and...Read more

05 January 2015

Imagination’s Caskeid wireless audio platform to support MQA

Las Vegas, USA – 5th
January 2015 – Imagination
Technologies (IMG.L) announces that its Caskeid wireless
audio IP platform is set to be the first multiroom streaming solution to
support MQA (Master Quality
Authenticated), a revolutionary...Read more

04 December 2014

Imagination takes open and accessible micro-computing to the next level

London,
UK – 4th December, 2014 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces that the
high-performance, low power MIPS Creator CI20 development board is now
available for pre-order.

The
MIPS Creator CI20 is an affordable micro-computer that...Read more

25 November 2014

London, UK – 25 November
2014 - Imagination Technologies
(LSE: IMG.L) is proud to announce that its Chief Executive Officer, Sir Hossein
Yassaie, is this year’s winner of the NMI Contribution to Industry award 2014,
announced at their annual Gala...Read more

03 October 2014

London,
UK – 3rd October, 2014 – Imagination
Technologies (IMG.L) announces that its experts will be on hand at the
Linley Tech Processor Conference 2014 to discuss key challenges and trends in
processor design, with a focus on the needs...Read more

10 July 2014

Retirement of Chairman

Imagination Technologies Group
plc (LSE: IMG, “Imagination”, “the Group”), a leading multimedia,
communications and processor technology company, has been notified by Geoff
Shingles that he intends to retire as Chairman within the next 6 to 12 months when
a successor has been appointed.

07 July 2014

Imagination to put post-doctoral researchers into schools to teach the latest in technology skills

LONDON, UK, 7th July, 2014 — Imagination Technologies announces it
is sponsoring a STEM research ‘chair’ as part of the government’s STEM (Science
Technology Engineering Mathematics) initiative, which will recruit
post-doctoral maths and physics researchers to teach in schools from September
2014....Read more

Leading technology companies form open source foundation ‘prpl’ supporting ‘datacenter to device’ portability

20 May 2014

Imagination delivers one-click virtual photos inside of SketchUp

San Francisco, CA – 20 May, 2014 –
Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) has released Visualizer for SketchUp, a
revolutionary new app which allows anybody to take virtual photos of their 3D
designs with a ‘real life look’ in SketchUp® with only one click.

15 May 2014

Imagination’s PowerVR Rogue GPUs are shipping in mass volume with 32- and 64-bit platforms for mobile and beyond

London, UK – 15th May,
2014 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces that its
industry-leading PowerVR Rogue GPUs are now shipping in mass volume with a
range of 32- and 64-bit platforms from multiple silicon vendors targeting a
range of applications...Read more

13 May 2014

Royalty comes to Kings Langley

London, 13th May 2014: His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, today visited Imagination Technologies’ new state-of-the-art head offices in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. The Duke of Kent has a keen interest in engineering and technology, especially British companies like...Read more

17 April 2014

Imagination introduces world’s highest quality WebRTC media engine

London UK, 17th
April, 2014 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L)
introduces an innovative WebRTC media engine that promises to deliver a new
level of quality to companies building native or browser-based voice and video
conferencing services...Read more

10 April 2014

Imagination’s Caskeid enriches PEAQ MUNET multiroom speakers

London UK, April 10th 2014 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L)
reports that PEAQ, one of Media-Saturn Group’s own brands, is using
Imagination’s Caskeid technology in a new range of PEAQ MUNET wireless
audio music streaming systems, which...Read more

01 April 2014

Imagination highlights solutions for IoT and wearables at EE Live!

EE Live! Conference & Expo, San Jose, CA – 1st
April, 2014 –Imagination Technologies
(IMG.L) will highlight its expertise and momentum in IoT and wearables at the
EE Live! Conference and Expo, being held March 31st – April...Read more

31 March 2014

Imagination’s PowerVR Series6 is the first mobile GPU to pass OpenCL™ 1.2 conformance with Khronos

18 March 2014

Imagination Technologies delivers revolution in graphics with new Wizard family of PowerVR Ray Tracing GPUs

Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA – 18 March,
2014 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L)
delivers a revolutionary new family of graphics IP cores that raises the
bar for ray traced graphics to a dramatic new level, delivering astonishing
realism...Read more

18 March 2014

Imagination and Unity partner to bring Imagination’s breakthrough ray tracing technology to real time, interactive games

28 February 2014

London, UK – 28 February, 2014 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Onkyo, one of the world’s foremost creators of innovative home entertainment products, announced today that they have entered an agreement to collaborate on the next generation of wireless audio music streaming systems...Read more

26 February 2014

Imagination first to show new 3DMark OpenGL ES 3.0 Benchmark from Futuremark

24 February 2014

Mobileye and Imagination strengthen partnership

Jerusalem, Israel, and London, UK – February 24th, 2014 –Mobileye, the world leader
in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), announced today
that they are extending...Read more

24 February 2014

Imagination’s popular Codescape tools now provide MIPS CPU support and extended Linux/RTOS capabilities

Embedded
World Conference, Nuremburg, Germany – 24 February, 2014 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L)
announces that the latest version of its popular Codescape
debugger now supports the full range of MIPS CPUs, offers new Linux and RTOS
awareness...Read more

16 January 2014

Hot trends at CES 2014 reflect Imagination’s technology vision

London, UK – 16 January, 2014 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L)
reports significant deployment of its technologies in many products demonstrated
at International CES 2014. Imagination’s technologies were at the heart of a broad
range of products from IoT (internet...Read more

16 December 2013

London, UK – 16 December, 2013 – As part
of their long term ongoing partnership, Imagination Technologies (LSE: IMG) and
Frontier Silicon, the leading supplier of digital radio and connected audio
technology and part of the Toumaz Group (TMZ.L), announce that Frontier Silicon
is using Imagination’s Ensigma...Read more

16 December 2013

Imagination Technologies welcomes Government statement providing certainty on the digital future of broadcast in the UK

London, UK – 16 December, 2013 – Imagination Technologies
(LSE: IMG) today announced its support for UK Government plans confirming that
digital is the future for UK radio and providing certainty about the criteria
for digital switchover.

Imagination agrees with Minister Ed Vaizey that
switchover...Read more

18 November 2013

Imagination announces world’s first Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM combo IP

London, UK – 18 November,
2013 – Imagination
Technologies (IMG.L) announces the world’s first IP that combines Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and
FM receiver in one configurable solution. With this combination of
technologies, a new family of Ensigma Series4 ‘Explorer’ radio processor unit (RPU)...Read more

07 November 2013

Sebastopol, CA: 7 November, 2013 –
When Switch
Vehicles needed to develop the frame and
instrumentation for its latest fleet of electric vehicles, they turned to consultant
Max Sims. As a designer who specializes in automotive design, Sims was...Read more

04 November 2013

Imagination announces major new update to PowerVR Graphics SDK

London, UK – 4 November, 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces availability of the latest version of its industry-leading PowerVR Graphics SDK (Software Development Kit) v3.2. The launch is coupled with the kickoff of the Imagination Developers Connection 2013 (idc2013), a series of events designed...Read more

24 October 2013

Imagination’s revolutionary wireless multiroom audio technologies get strong US market support and traction

Imagination Technologies (LSE: IMG.L),
reports significant developments in the delivery of new technologies enabling
the mass market adoption of wireless multiroom audio and associated streaming music
systems. The technologies are helping to drive the on-going revolutionary
transition of home audio and...Read more

02 October 2013

Imagination and Rightware enter multi-year strategic partnership

London, UK – 7 October
2013
– Imagination Technologies
(IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies
company, and Rightware, a leader in user interface (UI) design and benchmarking
software, have entered into a new multi-year strategic agreement. The partnership
is...Read more

13 September 2013

MediaTek and Imagination significantly expand strategic partnership

Imagination Technologies
(LSE: IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud
technologies company, has signed a further license agreement with MediaTek
Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and
digital multimedia solutions. The multi-year agreement...Read more

05 September 2013

Imagination’s Flow platform to deliver new licensable consumer music and radio streaming solution

London, UK – 5th September,
2013 –Imagination
Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia,
processor, communications and cloud technologies company, introduces FlowAudio,
a licensable cloud-based music and radio service that provides subscription
access...Read more

30 August 2013

Industry elite gather at Stanford University to celebrate an important year in Imagination’s history and a new era for the MIPS processor

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, “Imagination”,
“the Group”), a leading multimedia, communications and processor technology
company, announced a number of notable new developments at the Imagination
Executive Reception and Showcase held at the Stanford University Faculty...Read more

28 August 2013

28 August 2013

Imagination and TSMC partner to drive industry-leading performance on GPUs

Sunnyvale, CA – 28 August 2013 –Imagination
Technologies (IMG.L), a leading
multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announced
today that it is working together with TSMC to drive next-generation performance
to new levels...Read more

27 August 2013

Imagination and Mentor extend partnership for open source, embedded tools support across all MIPS CPUs

27 June 2013

London, UK – 27 June 2013 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L),
a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company,
announces that its Ensigma Series4 radio processor unit (RPU) IP core family is
now available for licensing,...Read more

20 June 2013

London,
UK – 20 June 2013 – Imagination
Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor,
communications and cloud technologies company, announces that it is driving
adoption of the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) standard with its PowerVR...Read more

17 June 2013

Imagination Technologies
(IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies
company, today announced that long-time MIPS licensee Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly
integrated...Read more

12 June 2013

Imagination Technologies’ 2012 growth outpaces industry by 3x

London, UK – 12 June 2013 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L),
a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company,
announces that it was the fastest growing company among leading IP companies in
2012, outpacing growth of...Read more

09 April 2013

Sunnyvale, CA – 9th April 2013 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor,
communications and cloud technologies company, announces that several of its
experts will be on hand at the Linley Mobile Conference 2013 to discuss key
challenges...Read more

25 March 2013

Imagination delivers latest version of leading tools for game development at GDC 2013

Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, Calif., 25th March 2013: Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announces the release of the latest version of its industry-leading PowerVR Graphics SDK (software development kit) v3.1.Read more

21 March 2013

MIPS multi-threaded CPUs from Imagination push performance to new levels for Altair’s new LTE chipsets

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – 21 March, 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announces that two new baseband processors from Altair Semiconductor, a leading developer of high performance, single-mode LTE chipsets, are powered by MIPS...Read more

28 February 2013

London, UK – 28th February 2013 –Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia,
processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announces that two key technologies in its IP portfolio are
finalists in the EE
Times-China...Read more

25 February 2013

Power efficiency is now the dominant factor in mobile design says Imagination

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Spain – 25th February 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, says that power consumption and thermal envelope considerations are becoming a dominant factor in mobile SoC design...Read more

25 February 2013

Expectations set by mobile devices are driving other consumer categories to ‘get smart’, says Imagination

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Spain – 25th February 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, says that technologies created for mobile devices, such as advanced GPUs and 4K capable video decoders and encoders,...Read more

25 February 2013

Imagination joins Open Handset Alliance

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Spain – 25th February 2013 – Imagination Technologies
(IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company,
announces it has joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a group of leading technology and mobile
companies...Read more

25 February 2013

PowerVR G6100 Series6 ‘Rogue’ core enables mass-market OpenGL ES3.0

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Spain – 25th February 2013 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, today announces the smallest area member of the ground-breaking PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ family, which will enable...Read more

20 February 2013

Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), a leading multimedia, processor, communications and cloud technologies company, announces that its PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ GPU (graphics processing unit) technology has been among the first to pass OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance with Khronos.*

08 February 2013

Acquisition of MIPS Technologies completed

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, "Imagination") has completed the acquisition of the operating business and certain patent properties of MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS, "MIPS") as well as license rights to all of the remaining patent properties.

01 February 2013

London, UK, 1st February 2013: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces that it is among the first to submit PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ drivers for OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance with Khronos.* Designed for the latest APIs, including OpenGL ES 3.0, PowerVR...Read more

31 January 2013

Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia technologies company, is now shipping its
Caustic Series2 PC boards, the R2500 and R2100, which accelerate PowerVR OpenRL
applications including the Caustic Visualizer™ viewport plug-ins for Autodesk®
Maya® and 3ds Max® and the Neon viewport in Rhinoceros...Read more

16 January 2013

Imagination reports on CES 2013 highlights

16 January 2013: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, reports significant growth in penetration in TV and other consumer markets. This was demonstrated by yesterdays’ announcement regarding MediaTek and a record number of new product announcements from its...Read more

15 January 2013

MediaTek extends licensing partnership with Imagination to TV market

Imagination
Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leading
multimedia, communications and embedded processor technology company, reports
that it has signed a further license agreement with MediaTek Inc., a leading
fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital
multimedia...Read more

09 January 2013

Imagination’s PowerVR graphics and video licensees deliver chips powering the next generation of TV and STB at CES 2013

International CES 2013, Las Vegas, USA: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, is showing the products and technologies that are enabling the next wave of TV and STB (Set-Top Box) evolution at CES 2013 (LVCC South Hall 4 Suite S215).

08 January 2013

International
CES 2013, Las Vegas, USA: Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, is demonstrating the connectivity and cloud technologies
that will drive the next wave of connected home technologies to mass market
penetration at CES 2013 (LVCC South Hall...Read more

08 January 2013

Imagination pushes the boundary for existing PowerVR Series5XT (SGX) GPUs with new extended API features

International
CES 2013, Las Vegas, USA: Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia
technologies company, announces a set of advanced API
extensions for its existing PowerVR Series5XT (SGX) GPUs, giving application
processors using the technology, and mobile and embedded devices based on them,
access...Read more

04 January 2013

Multimedia and connectivity technologies are key to making devices feel ‘smart’, says Imagination

International CES, Las Vegas, USA: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, says that at the heart of the ‘smart’ revolution in consumer electronics are two pivotal sets of technologies:

• those for multimedia which enable smooth UI, rich graphics...Read more

29 December 2012

Hossein Yassaie knighted for services to technology and innovation

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG) is delighted to announce that its Chief Executive Officer, Hossein Yassaie, has been awarded a knighthood by the Queen in Her Majesty’s New Year Honours 2013. The award was given in recognition of his services to technology and innovation.

11 December 2012

Acquisition of MIPS Technologies Inc.

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, "Imagination") notes the announcement from CEVA, Inc. earlier today that it has submitted a further proposal to the Board of Directors of MIPS Technologies, Inc. (“MIPS”) to acquire the operating business of MIPS for $90 million plus the payment on MIPS’ behalf...Read more

The company announced this significant milestone at an event at the British Embassy in Tokyo...Read more

12 November 2012

Onkyo collaborates with Imagination and its Pure division to bring next generation connected audio to customers world-wide

Tokyo, Japan: Onkyo, one of the world’s foremost creators of innovative home entertainment products, Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia technologies company and Pure, the consumer product division of Imagination Technologies announced today a strategic collaboration in connected...Read more

16 October 2012

San Jose: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, observes that the growth in performance of mobile GPUs, such as its PowerVR IP cores, is driving future generations of silicon process and packaging technologies, as well as SoC (system on chip) processing performance...Read more

06 August 2012

Shipments of total OpenGL ES enabled GPUs to hit 1 billion units per year by 2014, says Imagination

SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, Calif.: Shipments of GPUs conformant with the Khronos OpenGL ES family of graphics APIs (Application Programming Interface) will reach 1 billion units per annum by 2014 according to Imagination Technologies, the leading supplier of mobile and embedded GPU (Graphics Processor Unit)...Read more

14 June 2012

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia technologies company, has achieved Wi-Fi Direct™ certification for its Ensigma UCCP IP Reference Platform. Wi-Fi Direct is a certification mark for devices supporting a technology that enables Wi-Fi® devices to connect directly, making it simple to do things...Read more

14 June 2012

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and
communications technologies company, announced its collaboration with TSMC to ensure that licensees of all of Imagination’s IP (intellectual
property) cores can optimize
speed,
area and power consumption on TSMC’s most advanced 28nm and below processes.

26 March 2012

DesignWest / ESC Silicon Valley Expo, San Jose, USA: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, says that technology vendors targeting 'The Internet of Things' need to provide far more than small conventional microcontrollers if products are to deliver the...Read more

26 March 2012

DesignWest / ESC
Silicon Valley Expo, San Jose, USA: Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, has
announced the PowerVR VXD395MP video decoder with support for resolutions up to
4Kx2K thanks to a unique multicore architecture.

06 March 2012

Imagination announces PowerVR Insider SDK 2.10

Game Developers Conference,
San Francisco: Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, has released
version 2.10 of its industry leading PowerVR Insider SDK (software development
kit). Free and fully featured copies of the SDK will be available for download
soon following...Read more

06 March 2012

Imagination announces major upgrade to its PVRTC technology

Game Developers Conference, San Francisco: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces the release of PVRTC2, the latest generation of its PVRTC texture compression technology, for all PowerVR Series5XT and Series6 GPU IP cores.

28 February 2012

PowerVR graphics driving mass market smartphone graphics adoption

MWC, Barcelona, Spain: Imagination
Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, "Imagination", "the Group"), a leading multimedia and communications technologies company,
announces that the first two cores of its new PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ family,
G6200 and G6400, are now available and deliver the highest...Read more

27 February 2012

MWC, Barcelona, Spain: GPUs will
increasingly be complemented by highly optimised VPUs (video processing units)
to deliver multiple streams of multi-standard HD video within a graphics-rich
application environment, taking the user experience to another level of
sophistication, quality and ease of use,...Read more

27 February 2012

Imagination announces HelloSoft Social Communicator for Social Networking Platforms at MWC

MWC,
Barcelona, Spain: Imagination Technologies (LSE:
IMG, "Imagination", "the Group"), a leading multimedia and
communications technologies company, announces HelloSoft Social Communicator, an
integrated HelloSoft V.VoIP (Voice and Video over IP) SDK for Social Networking
Platforms...Read more

10 January 2012

Multimedia and connectivity technologies transforming much wider markets than just smartphones, says Imagination

International CES, Las Vegas, USA: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications
technologies company, says that it believes three key trends will transform the
consumer electronics industry and also drive many new vital emerging markets in
the next few years. These trends are:

The PowerVR G6200 and G6400 GPU IP cores are the
first in a growing family of PowerVR Series6...Read more

22 November 2011

Imagination chooses Bristol for its latest PowerVR Design Centre

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications IP (Intellectual Property) company, has confirmed Bristol as the location for its latest PowerVR graphics and multimedia R&D facility.

As a result of the on-going success across all its IP technologies, including PowerVR graphics...Read more

16 November 2011

Imagination launches HelloSoft 4G VoLTE platform and SDK in Japan

Yokohama, Japan: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and
communications technologies company, is bringing the latest in its HelloSoft 4G V.VoIP and
VoLTE solutions for smartphones, tablets, and mobile computing devices to Embedded
Technology in Yokohama Japan (Nov 16-18, Pacifico, Yokohama;...Read more

15 November 2011

Multimedia and connectivity technologies transforming much wider markets than just smartphones, says Imagination

Tokyo, Japan: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, says that it believes three key trends will transform the consumer electronics industry and also drive many new vital emerging markets in the next few years. These trends are:

28 September 2011

Imagination announces Minimorph development system for connected devices

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces the Meta HTP221-dp2 'Minimorph', a highly integrated low cost 'connected processor' based system designed to help engineers create the next generation of Cloud-connected embedded and consumer solutions.

14 September 2011

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, and Orca Systems, a wireless chip and IP company, are developing new solutions for combined RF and baseband targeting future generations of digital and connected TVs.

09 August 2011

Vancouver,
Canada, 9 August 2011: Imagination Technologies, a
leading multimedia and communications technologies company, is showing with
partners the first examples of a growing portfolio of solutions based on
the new Brazil™ 3.0 beta interactive ray tracing renderer, built using
Imagination’s ground-breaking...Read more

09 August 2011

Imagination and Kishonti preview GLBenchmark 2.5 at SIGGRAPH 2011

Vancouver,
Canada, August 9th 2011: Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, and
Kishonti Informatics, a trusted benchmarking service provider, are demonstrating publicly, for the first time, a preview
of the latest Kishonti GLBenchmark 2.5 benchmark...Read more

05 July 2011

Imagination Technologies enables META connected processor embedded system development by University of Southampton students

Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, has
donated a set of embedded systems development kits to the Electronics &
Computer Science department at the University of Southampton.

The development
systems, called METAmorphs, are based on a single...Read more

14 June 2011

POWERVR Series6 leads next mobile and embedded graphics generation

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces that its next generation POWERVR Series6 architecture, codenamed 'Rogue', has now being licensed by six lead partners.

The POWERVR Series6 GPU family, which delivers unrivalled GFLOPS per mm2 and per mW...Read more

02 June 2011

Imagination brings long standing experience to successfully deliver DirectX for next generation Windows for SoCs

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, is delivering graphics and video IP cores supporting the newest versions of Microsoft DirectX across x86 and ARM based SoCs (Systems on Chip) for the next version of Windows as well as on x86 Windows 7 PCs.

The agreement provides Fujitsu with access to a range of Imagination’s...Read more

03 May 2011

Video IP deployment rapidly accelerating says Imagination

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, says that its partners have now shipped 150m devices cumulatively incorporating its video SoC IP cores out of over 500m devices which have now shipped incorporating Imagination’s IP, many of these containing multiple...Read more

02 March 2011

Imagination announces POWERVR Insider SDK 2.8

GDC, San Francisco: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, has released version 2.8 of its industry leading POWERVR Insider SDK (software development kit). Free and fully featured copies of the SDK will be available for download soon following a brief period where they...Read more

15 February 2011

Imagination partners drive mobile and embedded graphics to new level

MWC, Barcelona, Spain, February 15th 2011: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, is enabling mobile and embedded graphics performance to reach new levels with high performance single and multiprocessor POWERVR SGX solutions now appearing in the latest generation...Read more

14 February 2011

Global on chip broadcast and connectivity now a reality, says Imagination

MWC, Barcelona, Spain, February 14th 2011: ENSIGMA UCCP IP platforms from Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, are complete multi-standard radio processing units (RPU) that enable SoC designers to integrate a single engine on-chip that delivers production...Read more

14 February 2011

MWC, Barcelona, Spain, February 14th 2011: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, says that its partners will ship significantly higher volume, well over 200m SoCs (Systems on Chip) using its advanced multimedia, communications and connectivity IP cores, in...Read more

14 February 2011

MWC, Barcelona, Spain, February 14th 2011: Imagination Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies company is working with partners including Apical, Digital Legends, Natural Motion, NAVTEQ, Pushbutton, Scaleform and Visioglobe to showcase the latest and most innovative and advanced usage of GPUs...Read more

14 February 2011

Imagination brings HD Radio Technology to its global radio platform

MWC, Barcelona, Spain, February 15th 2011: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, has extended its market leading world digital radio platform IP with support for the digital radio standard for the USA, iBiquity Digital Corporation’s HD Radio™ Technology....Read more

06 January 2011

Imagination brings best of today's and tomorrow's technologies to CES 2011

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, is demonstrating the latest multimedia, broadcast/connectivity and processor technologies at CES 2011 in Las Vegas from January 6-9th.

At CES Imagination will be showing: the end-user devices, powered by Imagination’s...Read more

06 December 2010

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies
company, announces the latest additions to its multi-standard, multi-stream video
IP core families, the POWERVR VXD392 decoder and POWERVR VXE382 encoder,
including support for H.264 MVC, WebM (VP8; decode), S3D (Stereoscopic...Read more

06 December 2010

Imagination acknowledges assistance of Yorkshire Forward for Research Initiative

Imagination acknowledges assistance of
Yorkshire Forward for Research Initiative

London, UK, Dec 6th 2010, Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, has
successfully completed the first phase of research into advanced System...Read more

06 December 2010

Imagination announces POWERVR SGX554 MP multi-processor graphics IP

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies
company, announces POWERVR SGX554, a high performance graphics core for
embedded and mobile applications with full multi-processor capability.

POWERVR SGX554 can be implemented as a
high-performance 8-pipe single...Read more

08 November 2010

Announcing today that its partners have now shipped over 400m devices cumulatively incorporating its multimedia SoC (System on Chip) IP cores, Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, says that it foresees the total addressable market (TAM) for SoCs incorporating...Read more

22 September 2010

Imagination enables developers to use 3D navigation data in new SDK

London, September 22nd 2010: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces that the latest version of its POWERVR Insider software development kit (SDK), version 2.7, includes a new tutorial showing developers how to take full advantage of graphics acceleration...Read more

03 September 2010

IFA, Berlin: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces that the new Samsung Galaxy Tab is fully supported by Imagination’s POWERVR Insider SDK for Android.

Developers will be able to use the SDK as part of their application development workflow...Read more

11 August 2010

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces that it will be bringing Flow, a new portfolio of enabling technologies for cloud connectivity, to market. Imagination's Flow technology already powers its PURE division's...Read more

The demonstration makes use of the powerful rendering capabilities...Read more

08 July 2010

Imagination Technologies Supports 'Much Needed' Government plans for Digital Radio

London, July 8th, 2010: Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, announces its support for Government plans for digital radio migration, announced today by culture minister Ed Vaizey.

10 June 2010

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, announces POWERVR SGX544, a high performance graphics core for embedded and mobile applications with full support for Microsoft DirectX 9 and multi-processor capability.

25 May 2010

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, has signed a license agreement with Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (TSE:2363; "SiS"), a developer of leading-edge devices for the PC, communications and consumer multimedia embedded...Read more

04 May 2010

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leading multimedia and communications chip technologies company, reports that it has signed a multi-use license agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723; "Renesas"), a premiere supplier of advanced semiconductors, for a...Read more

21 April 2010

Imagination Technologies' Queen's Award

Imagination Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies company, has been awarded The Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category.

The Award has been presented to the company for its success in licensing groundbreaking technologies used at the heart of many of today’s...Read more

09 March 2010

Imagination Announces Quarter of a Billion POWERVR Devices Shipped

San Francisco, 9th March 2010: Imagination Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies company, reports that POWERVR, its hardware graphics acceleration technology, has become the standard for mobile and embedded gaming. POWERVR now has an installed base of over 250 million devices...Read more

16 February 2010

Barcelona, Spain, 16th February 2010: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, announces that its POWERVR SXG540 hardware 3D graphics acceleration technology is enabling class-leading graphics in the new OMAP™ 4 family of SoCs from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI)....Read more

15 February 2010

Imagination Technologies and Adobe showcase the potential of a GPU accelerated Adobe Flash Player 10.1 mobile experience at MWC 2010

Barcelona, Spain, 15th February 2010: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, is demonstrating the results of its collaboration with Adobe to optimise Flash Player 10.1 for mobile and embedded devices, utilising OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration, on application processors...Read more

15 February 2010

Barcelona, Spain, 15th February 2010: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, is demonstrating two of Imagination's latest ENSIGMA UCCP310 IP platforms running real time Wi-Fi and ATSC integrated on an advanced SoC test chip at MWC 2010 in Barcelona (15-18 February 2010)....Read more

15 February 2010

Imagination's POWERVR SGX passes 100 OEM products milestone

Barcelona, Spain, 15th February 2010: Imagination Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies company, reports that, with over 100 products from a wide range of leading OEMs now shipping using its POWERVR SGX graphics acceleration technology 2010 will be the year in which OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics...Read more

12 February 2010

Imagination Brings Best of Developer Ecosystem to MWC 2010

Imagination Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies company is working with partners including Digital Legends, Fishlabs, Teleca, Digital Aria and TAT to bring the best in new mobile multimedia and communications demonstrations and devices to MWC 2010 in Barcelona from February 15 – 18th....Read more

08 January 2010

Las Vegas, USA, 8th January 2010: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, and On2 Technologies, a leader in video compression technologies, are working together to enable Imagination Technologies to support decoding of On2 video formats, beginning with On2 VP6, which...Read more

07 January 2010

Imagination Technologies brings its PURE radio brand to the US

Las Vegas, USA, 7th January 2010: Imagination Technologies (LSE: IMG.L), the global leading provider of multimedia and communication technologies, today announced that digital and internet-connected radios from its PURE...Read more

24 November 2009

Imagination reveals new META family of embedded SoC processors

Tokyo, Japan: Imagination
Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, announces the
full roadmap for its Series2 generation of META processors, designed for the
SoC-centric (System-on-Chip) age of silicon design.

The META family of 32-bit SoC processor IP
cores is a unique range...Read more

24 November 2009

Tokyo, Japan:
Imagination
Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies company,
will begin shipping fully verified production
quality IP for its POWERVR SGX543MP multiprocessor graphics cores to partners
before the end of December 2009. Multiple lead partners have already been
working with...Read more

24 November 2009

Imagination Technologies introduces 'Connected Processor' IP cores

Tokyo, Japan: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies
company, says that the next trend in silicon integration will be for ubiquitous
connectivity in all forms of consumer electronics.

Reflecting this
trend, the company has created a new class of embedded Connected Processor™
solutions...Read more

18 November 2009

Yokohama, Japan: Imagination Technologies, the leading multimedia chip technologies
company, announces the latest member of its video decode IP
core family, POWERVR VXD390: a low power, high performance, multi-standard and
multi-stream high definition, hardware video decoder IP core that now also
offers...Read more

12 November 2009

Imagination Technologies Group plc ('Imagination', LSE: IMG), a leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) Intellectual Property (IP), and Green Plug Inc. ('Green Plug'), a leading developer of digital technology enabling smart communication between electronic devices and their power sources, have entered...Read more

04 November 2009

Imagination licences Internet radio portal platform to O2

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, reports that connected radio portal technologies developed initially for the internet-connected products of its PURE division will enable new radio features on the O2 Joggler.

27 October 2009

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies
company, has teamed up with NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map,
traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise
solutions, to drive innovation in graphics for location-based services (LBS). Imagination
and...Read more

20 October 2009

Imagination and Futuremark team up to bring Kanzi UI engine to POWERVR Insiders

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies
company, is working with Futuremark, a leading provider of performance analysis
software and services for PCs and smartphones, to make Futuremark's Kanzi UI
(user interface) engine and toolkit available to members of Imagination's
POWERVR...Read more

22 September 2009

Imagination announces POWERVR Insider SDK 2.5

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, has released version 2.5 of its industry leading POWERVR Insider SDK (software development kit).

The POWERVR Insider SDK is developers' preferred development environment for the creation of OpenGL ES 2.0 as well as OpenGL ES...Read more

17 September 2009

Imagination's technologies enable new 'radio for the Facebook generation'

London, UK, 17 September 2009: Imagination Technologies, a leader in multimedia chip technologies, reports that its META processor and ENSIGMA communications technologies, together with its internet radio portal platform, enable the unprecedented capabilities of PURE's new Sensia radio.

08 September 2009

Imagination passes 200 million unit milestone

Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, reports that cores from its current silicon IP families, META, ENSIGMA and POWERVR, have shipped in over 200 million system-on-chip (SoC) devices*.

With its technology having shipped in over 175 smartphones and media players...Read more

25 August 2009

POWERVR Insider membership races to over 12,000 members

Imagination Technologies, the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies, reports that its POWERVR Insider ecosystem has grown to over 12,000 members.

POWERVR Insider, which has its online resources and interactive online developer forum at www.powervrinsider.com, has tripled in numbers over...Read more

22 June 2009

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination") - a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that it has signed a multi-use license agreement with MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company, for a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics processor family....Read more

16 June 2009

London, 16th June 2009: Imagination Technologies a leader in technology for digital broadcast silicon devices today announced its full support for the Government's outline of a complete action plan for the digital migration of radio by 2015.

Today's recommendations coincide with the continued momentum...Read more

09 June 2009

Imagination Technologies to include Sorenson Spark video decoder on its video cores to enable playback of the widest selection of internet video

London, UK and San Diego, 9th June 2009: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia chip technologies company, and Sorenson Media today announced that Imagination will include Sorenson Media's Sorenson Spark™ video decoder in future versions of its line of advanced POWERVR™VXD video decoder...Read more

27 April 2009

Imagination Technologies and Toumaz Holdings extend relationship

Imagination Technologies Group plc ('Imagination', LSE: IMG), a leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) Intellectual Property (IP), and Toumaz Holdings Limited ('Toumaz Holdings', AIM:TMZ), the specialist niche investor in emerging technologies, have agreed a significant deal which will both further develop...Read more

27 March 2009

London, 27th March 2009: Imagination Technologies, a leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) silicon IP, sees a bright future for both the company's semiconductor technology licensing division and PURE digital radio product division, following the announcement yesterday by Germany that all 16 regional authorities...Read more

20 March 2009

Imagination Technologies joins with partners to present leading 3D technology and tools at Games Developers Conference 2009

San Francisco, 20 March 2009: Imagination Technologies, a leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) silicon IP, is working with partners including Digital Legends, Firemint, Nokia and Samsung to bring the best in 3D tutorials, demonstrations and devices to Games Developers Conference 2009 (San Francisco,...Read more

17 February 2009

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 17 February 2009: Imagination Technologies, the multimedia chip technologies company, and Samsung are working together to demonstrate the revolutionary graphics capabilities of the new Samsung Omnia HD i8910 at MWC 2009.

16 February 2009

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 16 February 2009: Imagination Technologies, the multimedia chip technologies company, is demonstrating an evaluation system of the ENSIGMA UCCP310, the first IP offering based on the latest UCC Series3 architecture, at MWC 2009. ENSIGMA UCCP310 is the first IP platform to...Read more

16 February 2009

Imagination announces first member of new vector graphics IP core family

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 16 February 2009: Imagination Technologies, the multimedia chip technologies company, today announced the first in a new family of scalable vector graphics processor IP cores - the POWERVR VGX150.

Imagination's POWERVR MBX and SGX technologies are already the de...Read more

09 January 2009

Las Vegas, 9 Jan 2009: Imagination Technologies the leader in semiconductor System on Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP) announced its market leading POWERVR technology at CES 2009 is accelerating multimedia Internet content experiences built for use with Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe Flash Lite software,...Read more

08 January 2009

Las Vegas, 8th January 2009: Imagination Technologies the leader in semiconductor System on Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP) announces the availability to lead customers of its new POWERVR FRC270 the only licensable high-quality and low silicon-area IP core for motion compensated, 240Hz frame rate...Read more

24 November 2008

Imagination Technologies Licenses High-performance Graphics Processor Core to a Major International Consumer Electronics Company

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination") - a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that it has signed a license agreement with a new partner, a major international consumer electronics company, for a high-performance forthcoming member of Imagination's POWERVR...Read more

19 November 2008

Imagination announces latest POWERVR VXE video encoder IP cores

19 November 2008:
Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip Intellectual Property (SoC
IP), announced today the availability of two new IP cores in the POWERVR VXE
video encoder family. POWERVR VXE251 and VXE280 deliver multi-standard encode
at SD and HD resolutions respectively. Both cores...Read more

19 November 2008

19 November 2008:
Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip Intellectual Property (SoC
IP), announced today that it is demonstrating ISDB-T full-seg demodulation on
ENSIGMA UCCP230, part of Imagination's licensable software programmable radio IP
platform family, at the Embedded Technology...Read more

11 November 2008

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that NXP Semiconductors ("NXP") has signed a multi-use licence agreement for a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics IP family. This agreement is initially focussed on...Read more

08 October 2008

Further Licence Agreement Signed with Samsung Electronics

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that further to the license agreement announced in April 2008, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ("Samsung") has signed a multi-use licence agreement for a second core from Imagination's...Read more

07 October 2008

Imagination Technologies confirms design wins for all announced members of its industry-leading POWERVR SGX family

Imagination Technologies-the leader in mobile and embedded graphics-announces that design wins have been achieved for all announced members of the POWERVR SGX family, comprising the SGX520, SGX530, SGX531, SGX535 and SGX540. The family now ranges from the world's smallest OpenGL ES 2.0 IP core up to the...Read more

07 October 2008

Imagination Technologies extends successful POWERVR SGX53x family

Imagination Technologies - the leader in mobile and embedded graphics - announces the launch of the POWERVR SGX531 IP (Intellectual Property) core with native support for emerging trends in higher performance SoCs (Systems on Chip) that incorporate 128-bit or other higher data throughput bus fabrics.

15 September 2008

POWERVR Insider reaches 5,000 members

Austin, USA, 15th September 2008: Imagination Technologies, the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies, reports Imagination's POWERVR Insider ecosystem (www.powervrinsider.com), which brings together developers, chip companies and handset manufacturers, has over 5,000 members to date and is...Read more

15 September 2008

POWERVR 3D graphics accelerator core has now shipped in over 100 million products

Austin, USA, 15th September 2008: Imagination Technologies, the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies, reports that its market leading POWERVR graphics acceleration technology has now been shipped in over 100 million consumer products.

12 September 2008

PURE announces support for European Digital Radio Industry initiative to create new 'Go Anywhere' digital radios for single European market

London, UK 12th September 2008: PURE - the UK's leading radio manufacturer - strongly supports the announcement by the WorldDMB Forum today, of a major step taken by the European digital radio industry in achieving harmonised and interoperable digital radio services across Europe.

04 September 2008

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") - a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that, further to its announcement on 6th July 2007 of an initial license agreement with an international electronics systems company, this company has now concluded a new multi-year,...Read more

02 September 2008

Licence Agreement Signed with Sigma Designs

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") - a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that Sigma Designs, Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company, has licensed a member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics core family under a multiple-use license arrangement...Read more

26 August 2008

Imagination Technologies' PURE brand gets connected to new market

London, UK, 26th August 2008: Imagination Technologies, the market leader in DAB digital radio technology, reports that its PURE Digital brand has today launched the first truly 'connected' radio, EVOKE Flow, and its complementary radio and media portal, the PURE Lounge (www.thelounge.com).

14 August 2008

POWERVR SGX First with Conformance for all Khronos Mobile APIs on Production Silicon

London, UK, August 14th 2008: Imagination Technologies, the leader in mobile graphics technologies, reports that POWERVR SGX is the world's first 3D graphics acceleration solution to achieve conformance on commercially available production silicon for all of the Khronos mobile 2D and 3D graphics APIs...Read more

7 August 2008

POWERVR 3D graphics accelerator core has now shipped in over 100 products

London, UK, 7th August 2008: Imagination Technologies, the leader in mobile graphics technologies, reports that its market leading POWERVR 3D-graphics acceleration technology has now been deployed in a diverse range of over 100 products.

08 April 2008

Renesas Licenses Third POWERVR SGX Core

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") reports that Renesas Technology Corp. ("Renesas"), one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers, has licensed a third member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics...Read more

03 March 2008

SiRF choose POWERVR MBX & POWERVR MVED1 IP Cores

(CeBIT), 3rd March 2008: Imagination Technologies, a leader in mobile multimedia semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) technologies, today revealed further information about its partnership with SiRF and its views on the development of the Portable Navigation Device (PND) market, where developments in...Read more

18 February 2008

POWERVR Graphics Dominates Industry Benchmark

GDC, San Francisco, 18th February 2008: Imagination Technologies a leader in mobile multimedia technologies has joined the GLBenchmark Development Program from Kishonti Informatics LP, a leading provider of mobile performance benchmarking software. Devices with graphics enabled by Imagination's...Read more

11 February 2008

MWC, Barcelona, February 11th 2008: With its technologies already shipping in many of the latest cellphone, in-car, digital radio and mobile TV enabled products, Imagination Technologies a leader in mobile multimedia technologies is demonstrating how its technologies are bringing further advancements to...Read more

11 February 2008

Imagination Technologies Extends its Lead in Mobile Graphics

MWC, Barcelona, February 11th 2008: At MWC 2008 Imagination Technologies a leader in mobile multimedia technologies says that the uptake of graphics technology is continuing strongly in the mobile market, a fact born out by this year's Mobile World Congress where dozens of phones and semiconductors containing...Read more

28 January 2008

London, 28th January 2008: Imagination Technologies a leader in multimedia technologies for consumer electronics and mobile reports that its POWERVR graphics acceleration technology is the world's first to pass the Khronos™ conformance tests for OpenVG1.0.1.

07 January 2008

Las Vegas, 7th January 2008: Imagination Technologies, a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP), announces the new POWERVR VXD380 advanced video decoder with support for all major HD and SD video formats, including the new Chinese AVS standard. VXD380 is the latest member of the growing...Read more

02 November 2007

Imagination Technologies Licenses POWERVR IP Cores to New Licensee

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") reports that SigmaTel, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGTL), a leading fabless semiconductor company, has licensed a number of POWERVR IP Cores from Imagination for use in its future generation of application...Read more

02 November 2007

Seoul, Korea: Imagination Technologies a leader in mobile multimedia technologies today revealed further information about the development of the mobile graphics market and POWERVR SGX540, its high performance core for mobile and embedded graphics.

01 November 2007

Tokyo, Japan, 1st November 2007: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP), announced today that it has added wide support for the Japanese ISDB-T digital TV and radio standards to its licensable receiver IP core family.

31 October 2007

Imagination Technologies META HTP Multi-Threaded Processor IP Core

October 31st 2007, Tokyo: Imagination Technologies a leader in mobile multimedia technologies for SoCs has announced its new META HTP multi-threaded processor IP core family as part of Multicore-Expo Japan today in Tokyo. Based on META2 architecture the latest generation of Imagination's highly regarded...Read more

16 October 2007

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") reports that Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), a world-leading semiconductor company, has licensed a second member of Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics core family for use in its...Read more

01 October 2007

Santa Clara, USA, 1st October 2007: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP), announced today that it has added support for the Japanese 1seg ISDB-T mobile TV standard to its licensable mobile TV IP Core.

06 August 2007

Leading Tools and Systems Providers Put POWERVR Insider Tools in Own Offerings

San Diego, USA, August 6th 2007: Imagination Technologies the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies is working with partners from its POWERVR Insider ecosystem programme to facilitate development tools and SDKs which are enabling a revolution in mobile and embedded 3D content.

06 August 2007

Imagination Technologies Celebrates Industry Leading Ecosystem Program’s Second Year at Siggraph 2007

San Diego, USA, August 6th 2007: Imagination Technologies - the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies is celebrating the outstanding success of POWERVR Insider, the market-leading technical support and co-marketing program, at SIGGRAPH 2007 from August 7-9th.

06 July 2007

Imagination Technologies Licences Multimedia IP Cores to an International Electronics Systems Company

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") - a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - reports that it has licensed next generation graphics and video IP cores to an international electronics systems company under a multi-use licensing agreement.

25 June 2007

Imagination Technologies and UBC Media Group Co-operate to Deliver Instant Music Purchase Solution

Imagination Technologies ("Imagination") and UBC Media Group ("UBC") announce that they have agreed to work together to create a service which will allow listeners to purchase music directly from DAB digital radios.

This service combines Imagination's new DAB and Internet digital radio platform with...Read more

5 March 2007

Imagination Technologies a leader in mobile multimedia technologies is demonstrating its OpenGL ES 2.0 tools and SDK at GDC 2007 in San Francisco. Copies of the SDK will be available to developers at the show and for download from www.powervrinsider.com.

12 February 2007

3GSM, Barcelona, February 12th 2007: With many of its technologies shipping in the latest cellphone, in-car, digital radio and mobile TV products Imagination Technologies a leader in mobile multimedia technologies is demonstrating how those technologies are evolving to bring further advancements to mobile...Read more

12 February 2007

3GSM, Barcelona, February 12th 2007: Imagination Technologies - a leader in mobile multimedia technologies - and partners from its PowerVR Insider ecosystem programme are demonstrating the latest advancements in content for mobile gaming, UI, entertainment and navigation in the next generation of mobile...Read more

12 February 2007

3GSM, Barcelona, February 12th 2007: Imagination Technologies - a leader in mobile multimedia technologies - has extended the support of its multi-standard mobile TV receiver platform to include the Japanese 'One Seg' mobile TV standard and is demonstrating this technology in action at 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona....Read more

8 January 2007

Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), is demonstrating its market-leading IP platform for multi-standard mobile TV demodulation. This multi-standard capability, developed using a novel balance of programmability and configurability, comes at no silicon area...Read more

16 November 2006

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; ";Imagination";) a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (";SoC IP";) reports that Centrality Communications ("Centrality"), a world leader in GPS SoC, has licensed a new video core from Imagination. Centrality will use this technology in its future...Read more

17 October 2006

Imagination Technologies a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property will be demonstrating advanced technology for mobile 3D graphics on the Texas Instruments stand #40 at the Symbian Smartphone Show 2006.

10 October 2006

Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination";) a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property ("; SoC IP";) reports that Renesas Technology Corp. (";Renesas";), one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers, has licensed a second member of the PowerVR SGX graphics / video...Read more

2 October 2006

Imagination Technologies the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies is demonstrating its PowerVR SGX next generation graphics technology at ARM Developers' Conference 2006 from October 3rd 5th.

2 October 2006

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; ";Imagination";) a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (";SoC IP";) reports that Texas Instruments Incorporated ("TI"), a world-leading semiconductor company, has licensed one of Imagination's PowerVR graphics core family members under a multiple-use...Read more

2 October 2006

PowerVR VXD370 Core Redefines Multi-standard HD-Video Capabilities

ARM DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE, BOOTH 608, SANTA CLARA, USA

Imagination Technologies the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies is demonstrating its PowerVR VXD370 multi-standard high definition video decoder core at ARM Developers' Conference 2006 from October 3rd 5th.

11 September 2006

Imagination Technologies a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property is pleased to report that Frontier Silicon has announced its Paradiso FS1030 multi-standard digital TV baseband IC, the first chip using Imagination Technologies' multi-standard mobile TV platform.

1 August 2006

Imagination Technologies - the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies is launching the latest version of its Software Development Kit for content developers at SIGGRAPH 2006. The PowerVR Insider SDK is the most exhaustively proven and comprehensive toolkit for mobile and embedded content developers.

1 August 2006

Imagination Technologies takes industry leading ecosystem program to next level at Siggraph 2006

Imagination Technologies - the leader in mobile and embedded graphics technologies is unveiling the next stage of PowerVR Insider, the market-leading technical support and co-marketing program, at SIGGRAPH 2006.

Imagination's successful PowerVR Insider program celebrates its first anniversary with...Read more

23 June 2006

Imagination Technologies to Continue to Market its Next Generation Graphics Technology Directly

Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination";) a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property (";SoC IP";) confirms that it continues to market its next generation graphics technology, PowerVR SGX, directly to customers and independently of ARM.

22 May 2006

Freescale Semiconductor License with Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; ";Imagination";) a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property (";SoC IP";) reports that Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL; NYSE:FSL.B; "Freescale") has signed a multiple-use licence agreement with Imagination which enables Freescale to deploy Imagination's...Read more

30 March 2006

Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination";) a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property (";SoC IP";) reports that Renesas Technology Corp. ("Renesas"), one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers, has extended its agreement with Imagination to the next generation...Read more

20 March 2006

Imagination Technologies, a leader in embedded graphics technology for mobile devices, is showing off the latest content and devices enabled by its PowerVR MBX graphics-core family at The GDC Expo in San Jose from March 22nd-24th 2006.
Imagination Technologies is partnering with the Khronos Group to demonstrate...Read more

20 March 2006

Imagination Technologies, a leader in embedded graphics technology for mobile devices, is uniting with Scaleform, the leading provider of in-game hardware accelerated UI and vector graphics animation engines, to demonstrate accelerated Adobe Flash content at the GDC Expo in San Jose from March 22 - March...Read more

15 February 2006

Imagination Technologies shows the 3D world of mobile gaming at 3GSM 2006

Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), will be demonstrating advanced technology for mobile 3D graphics on the company's stand at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain from 13-16 February 2006.

13th February 2006

Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), is debuting PowerVR support for the OpenVG API on the company's stand at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain from 13-16 February 2006.

PowerVR MBX, the leading mobile graphics acceleration solution,...Read more

13th February 2006

Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), is demonstrating, for the first time, a market-leading silicon based reference platform for multi-standard mobile TV on the company's stand at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 in Barcelona, Spain from 13-16 February 2006.

10th February 2006

Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), will be showcasing the latest applications processors and development systems from its licensing partners, new OEM handsets using those application processors, and advanced multimedia content enabled by its PowerVR graphics...Read more

8 February 2006

Licensing Agreement
Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination";) a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property (";IP";) reports that its strategic partner ARM ("ARM") has licensed the PowerVR MBX Lite 3D graphics IP core to Centrality Communications for use in next-generation...Read more

2nd February 2006

Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), is the first company to announce official and certified performance results for the independent 3DMarkMobile06 benchmark application developed and certified by Futuremark.

29 November 2005

Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination Technologies";), the leading provider of multimedia and communication intellectual property (";IP";), reports that Texas Instruments Incorporated ("TI") is utilizing Imagination's PowerVR MBX Lite core in its new OMAPV2230 UMTS Solution. Part of TI's OMAP-VoxTM...Read more

14 Novemvber 2005

Imagination Technologies brings Leading IP for entertainment and communications to Embedded Technology 2005

Tokyo, Japan, 14th November 2005: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), will be demonstrating advanced IP for emerging entertainment and communications markets including mobile 3D gaming, video, and Mobile TV at Embedded Technology 2005, from November 16-18...Read more

10 November 2005

Imagination Technologies brings best of 3D mobile gaming to Khronos Developer University at KGC 2005

Seoul, Korea, November 10th 2005: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), will be demonstrating both Quake Mobile from Pulse Interactive and Quake III Arena from NoctemWare on the PowerVR-enabled Dell Axim X51v this week at the Korean Games Conference / G Star...Read more

10 November 2005

Seoul, Korea, Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), has announced the public availability of its latest SDK and toolset for PowerVR MBX content development. This latest public PowerVR MBX SDK adds support for Symbian OS, the operating system that powers many...Read more

2nd November 2005

Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX set to ship in new NTT Docomo mobile phones

London, UK: Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination";; [LSE:IMG]) a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property (";SoC IP";) is pleased to report that Texas Instruments' ("TI") has announced that TI's OMAP2420 application processor has been selected to power NTT DoCoMo's new 3G FOMA 902i...Read more

27 October 2005

PowerVR Insider Program enables excellence in mobile 3D gaming

October 27th, Austin, Texas, USA: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), has created the 'PowerVR Insider' development programme to promote and endorse excellence at all levels of the mobile graphics ecosystem from silicon providers to games developers....Read more

20th October 2005

World leading DAB radios from Pure Digital take honours in What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision Awards 2005

London, UK: PURE Digital a division of Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) announces that the PURE EVOKE-2XT DAB digital radio has won radio 'Product of The Year' in the 2005 What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision awards.

Additionally the PURE EVOKE-1XT, the world's best selling digital radio, has won...Read more

The PowerVR SGX cores for wireless applications are part of Imagination's PowerVR...Read more

28 June 2005

Imagination Technologies at ESEC 2005

London, UK, 28th June 2005: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), will be presenting its licensable IP technology at the 8th Embedded Systems Expo and Conference (ESEC) in Tokyo from June 29th through July 1st 2005 at Tokyo Big Site.

28 June 2005

Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX Supports Windows Mobile 5.0

London; UK: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), announces that its PowerVR MBX graphics and video IP is one of the first embedded graphics technologies to support the recently announced Windows Mobile 5.0 software platform and Direct3D Mobile API.

19 May 2005

Imagination Technologies at SoC/SiP Developers Conference 2005

London; UK: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), will be presenting its licensable IP technology at the SoC/SiP developers conference 2005 on May 20th 2005 at the Tokyo conference centre. The event is sponsored by Nikkei Microdevices.

17 May 2005

New Licence Agreement with Intel Corporation

Imagination Technologies Group plc, ("Imagination Technologies"), a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), announces that Intel Corporation ("Intel") has licensed both a member of its new generation, fully programmable PowerVR graphics and video processing IP family, codenamed Eurasia,...Read more

14 February 2005

London, UK: Imagination Technologies' PowerVR division a market leader in embedded graphics, video and display technologies has launched the 'PowerVR Insider' development programme to promote and endorse excellence at all levels of the mobile graphics ecosystem.

9 September 2004

Imagination Technologies Enables EPG on DAB at IBC 2004

London, UK: Ensigma a division of Imagination Technologies will be demonstrating Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) support for DAB digital radios at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam.

Ensigma's EPG receiver and front-end software can be seen on the WorldDAB stand (Hall...Read more

9 September 2004

Leader in Receiver Broadcast Technology Sets Sights on DVB-H

London, UK: Imagination Technologies a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (IP) announces new IP for DVB-Handheld (DVB-H), the fast-emerging new standard for digital mobile TV in Europe and the USA.

Imagination offers leading demodulation and video IP specific for DVB-H including the...Read more

31 August 2004

PowerVR Shows the Way to Bring Console Quality Gaming to Mobiles

London, UK: Imagination Technologies a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property is demonstrating advanced hardware graphics support for the OpenGL ES API on its PowerVR MBX embedded graphics core at the Khronos Developer University event in London on September 1st.

13 July 2004

London, UK: Imagination Technologies - a leader in SoC IP - has selected CoSy, the highly flexible, easily-targetable compiler development system from ACE Associated Compiler Experts, as the basis of the next generation compiler technology for the META multi-threaded processor core.

This next high-end model in the SH-Mobile series of application processors for...Read more

21 April 2004

Imagination Technologies' Queen's Award

London, UK: Imagination Technologies [LSE:IMG] - a leader in SoC IP - has been awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2004. The Award for Enterprise Innovation has been presented to the company for its groundbreaking work in DAB digital radio technology.

18 March 2004

SEGA and Imagination Technologies Announce Licensing Agreement

London, UK: Imagination Technologies [LSE:IMG], a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), and SEGA CORPORATION [TSE:7964] today announce a licensing agreement between the companies for the development of next generation arcade systems based on new high-end PowerVR graphics technology.

18 March 2004

RNS: SEGA and Imagination Technologies Announce Licensing Agreement

London, UK: Imagination Technologies [LSE:IMG], a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), today announces a licensing agreement with SEGA CORPORATION [TSE:7964] for the development of next generation arcade systems based on new high-end PowerVR graphics technology.

16 March 2004

License Agreement with Sunplus Technology

Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination Technologies";), the leading provider of multimedia and communication intellectual property (";IP";), today announces that Sunplus Technology Company Limited (";Sunplus";) has licensed PowerVR MBX IP from Imagination Technologies for incorporation into application...Read more

24 February 2004

Imagination Technologies Group plc (";Imagination Technologies";), the leading provider of multimedia and communication intellectual property (";IP";), reports that Texas Instruments Incorporated ("TI") has announced its new OMAP™ 2 architecture for 2.5 and 3G mobile phones at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes,...Read more

Leading Digital Radio Technology Company Shows Latest at 3GSM

The vast majority of mobile DAB digital radios available today are powered by technology from Imagination. The technology provides impressive...Read more

23 February 2004

Imagination Technologies Joins SH-Mobile Consortium

London, UK: Imagination Technologies [LSE:IMG], a leader in system-on-chip (SoC) Intellectual Property (IP), today announced that it has joined the SH-Mobile Consortium founded by Renesas Technology Corp. The aim of the group is to provide support for developers of hardware, software and handsets based...Read more

23 February 2004

PowerVR MBX Technology Widespread at 3GSM

London, UK: Imagination Technologies a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP) today announces that five of its partners are demonstrating solutions based on the PowerVR MBX graphics technology at 3GSM 2004 in Cannes including public demonstrations from ARM in Hall 4 stand K16B, and Texas...Read more

23 February 2004

ARM and Imagination Technologies Collaborate to Offer Greater Support for Advanced 3D Graphics

CAMBRIDGE, UK AND LONDON, UK: Imagination Technologies, and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, announced today at the 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France, compliance with the OpenGL ES standard in PowerVR MBX graphics accelerator...Read more

15 December 2003

Leading Digital Radio Technology Company Predicts Bumper Christmas for DAB Digital Radio

London, UK: Imagination Technologies a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP) predicts another big Christmas for DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) in 2003, following a year in which sales of digital radios have exceeded all expectations. The vast majority of the DAB digital radios available...Read more

15 October 2003

Imagination Technologies' PowerVR IP Integrated by ARM into RealView Versatile Family of Development Systems

Imagination Technologies a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP) announces that ARM the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions has integrated PowerVR MBX graphics technology into a custom development chip which forms the basis of the new...Read more

13 October 2003

London, UK: Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), announces that it has signed a new licensing and development agreement with Frontier Silicon, a fabless semiconductor business.

This will give Frontier Silicon access to a wide range of hardware and software...Read more

24 September 2003

IGT Launches New PowerVR Based Gaming Machines at Vegas Show

IGT showcased many new gaming machines utilizing PowerVR graphics technology at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E). The annual trade show for new casino products took place from Sept. 16-18 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. New games featuring PowerVR included: Star Wars - A New Hope; Drew Carey; Wheel of Fortune:...Read more

12 September 2003

Imagination Technologies Supports London Trial of 5.1 Channel Surround Sound Using Windows Media 9 Series Over DAB Digital Radio

London, UK - Imagination Technologies, a leader in system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP), announces that the DRX-702ES DAB digital radio tuner from Imagination's PURE Digital division will support the upcoming trial broadcast of 5.1 audio signals to be transmitted over DAB in the central London area.

2 April 2003

PowerVR MBX Supports Polybump Technology

London, UK: PowerVR - a division of Imagination Technologies - is pleased to announce that it will support Crytek's Polybump technology with the PowerVR MBX embedded core.

The combination of PowerVR MBX and Polybump can enable the high-end techniques found in the latest games titles, like real per-pixel...Read more

18 February 2003

Hitachi and Imagination Technologies Extend Licensing Agreement

LONDON, UK: Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG), a leader in system-on-chip (SoC) Intellectual Property (IP), today announced that it has signed a new licensing agreement with Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, NYSE:HIT) one of the world's leading global electronics companies, which enables Hitachi to integrate Imagination's...Read more

18 February 2003

LONDON, UK - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, NYSE:HIT) one of the world's leading global electronics companies and Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG), a leader in system on-chip (SoC) Intellectual Property (IP), today announced that they have signed a new licensing agreement that will see Hitachi integrating Imagination's...Read more

17 December 2002

Imagination Technologies [LSE:IMG], a leader in system on chip IP, today announces the Universal Communications Coprocessor (UCC), a flexible and programmable communication processing unit designed for use in high performance multi-standard broadcast and wireless devices.

9 December 2002

Imagination Technologies [LSE:IMG], a leader in system on chip IP, reports that leading gaming manufacturer Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., has announced that it has received approval from Nevada gaming regulators for its revolutionary new slot platform - MKVI (pronounced 'Mark Six'). MKVI exclusively features...Read more

26 November 2002

London, UK: Imagination Technologies Group (LSE: IMG) and mobile 3D rendering technology pioneer HI Corporation (head office: Meguro-ku, Tokyo) today announced that they have agreed to cooperate in working on 3D graphics technologies for mobile communication devices in Japan and in marketing their products...Read more

18 November 2002

Imagination Technologies Wins a Best IP/SoC Prize 2002

London, UK: Imagination Technologies [LSE:IMG], a leader in system on chip (SoC) IP, today reports that it has won a Best IP/SoC Prize at the 11th IFIP Workshop & Exhibition on IP Based SoC Design, held on October 30-31, 2002 in Grenoble, France. The workshop was organised by Design and Re-use (D+R),...Read more

15 July 2002

Imagination Technologies Rebrands Division as its New IP Cores are Delivered in Consumer Products

Imagination Technologies (";Imagination";; LSE:IMG), the leading provider of multimedia and communication intellectual property (IP), today announced that its VideoLogic Systems division is changing its name to 'PURE Digital'.

The change in name reflects the increased diversity of the division's...Read more

15 July 2002

Metagence - a division of Imagination Technologies (";Imagination";; LSE:IMG) - today announced that its META super-threaded IP processor core is being used in the PURE DRX-701ES DAB digital radio tuner from PURE Digital (formerly VideoLogic Systems.)

15 July 2002

Ensigma a division of Imagination Technologies ("Imagination"; LSE:IMG) today announced that its digital radio IP is being used in the PURE DRX-701ES DAB digital radio tuner from PURE Digital (formerly VideoLogic Systems.)

The PURE DRX-701ES features the latest highly integrated, third-generation...Read more

1 July 2002

Ensigma DAB IP Enables the First £99 DAB Digital Radio

Chepstow, UK, 1st July 2002: Ensigma Technologies a division of Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) today announced that its digital radio IP is being used in the PURE EVOKE-1 DAB digital radio from VideoLogic Systems. The EVOKE-1 is the first £99 DAB radio.

1 July 2002

META™ Processor Core Enables the First £99 DAB Digital Radio

London, 1st July 2002: Metagence Technologies - a division of Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) - today announced that its META super-threaded IP processor core is being used in the PURE EVOKE-1 DAB digital radio from VideoLogic Systems. The EVOKE-1 is the first £99.99 (inc. VAT) DAB radio. At this price...Read more

1 July 2002

The First £99 DAB Digital Radio Arrives

LONDON, UK: Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG), the leading provider of multimedia and communication intellectual property (IP), today reports that its VideoLogic Systems division has announced the PURE EVOKE-1, the first sub-£100 DAB radio. The groundbreaking product employs IP from two other Imagination...Read more

6 June 2002

Sammy to use PowerVR Based System on Chip

London, UK: Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG), the leading provider of multimedia and communication intellectual property (IP), today announced that Sammy Corporation of Japan (TSE:6426) will use SoCs with integrated PowerVR graphic and video cores, supplied by Hitachi, Ltd (TSE:6501), in an advanced graphics...Read more

19 April 2002

TOKYO, JAPAN and LONDON, UK - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, NYSE:HIT) one of the world's leading global electronics companies and Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG), the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), today announced that they have signed a strategic, multi-use licensing...Read more

19 April 2002

Multi-Core Licensing Agreement Signed With Hitachi Ltd

Imagination Technologies, the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), today announces that it has signed a strategic, multi-use licensing agreement with Hitachi, one of the world's leading global electronics companies.

13 March 2002

Imagination Technologies at CeBIT 2002

London, UK: Imagination Technologies, the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), will be showing the latest technologies from its Metagence, Ensigma and PowerVR Technologies divisions at CeBIT 2002 from 13-20 March (Hall 20, Stand D06) as well as the latest PC and consumer...Read more

13 March 2002

March 13, 2002: PowerVR Technologies a division of Imagination Technologies unveiled the PowerVR KYRO II SE 3D Graphics Accelerator today at CeBIT 2002. KYRO II SE is the third processor in the KYRO family of 2D/3D graphics and video accelerators.

13 March 2002

March 13, 2002: PowerVR Technologies, a division of Imagination Technologies, the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), will be demonstrating its PowerVR MBX core for embedded graphics applications at CeBIT 2002. PowerVR MBX will enable the migration of modern 3D and video...Read more

26 February 2002

PowerVR Technologies Releases First Driver for Linux

The Imagination Technologies Linux Beta 1 driver kit provides 2D and 3D acceleration for the PowerVR KYRO family of graphics chips running in 16 and 32 bpp depths. The drivers are based on the standard DRI mechanism shipped with XFree86 > 4.0 and support the Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake Linux distributions.

21 February 2002

Co-Development With STMicroelectronics on Pocket Multimedia Platform for Mobile Multimedia and Entertainment Applications

Imagination Technologies, the leading provider of human-computer interface intellectual property (IP), announces today that it has signed a letter of intent for the co-development of a mobile multimedia entertainment platform with STMicroelectronics, the world's leading provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions...Read more

19 February 2002

ARM Demonstrate PowerVR MBX at 2002 3GSM World Congress and Embedded Systems Show

ARM, the industry's leading supplier of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, is demonstrating PowerVR MBX from PowerVR Technologies at the 2002 3GSM World Congress from 19-22 February, in Cannes, France and the Embedded Systems Show from 19-21 February, in Nuremberg, Germany.

17 January 2002

KINGS LANGLEY, UK -- Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG), the leading provider of human-computer interface intellectual property (IP), and Frontier Silicon Ltd., a new fabless semiconductor company, today announced that they have signed an agreement licensing Imagination Technologies' Digital TV and Digital...Read more

28 November 2001

Imagination Technologies Announces New Range of Products for Embedded SuperH Development

Imagination Technologies, the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property, today launches a new range of products for embedded SuperH development.

Two integrated development environments, CodeScape and CodeScape Professional, and DASH™, an intelligent Target Interface, support...Read more

26 November 2001

Imagination Technologies and Digital One Announce Completion of Digital Radio and Audio Processor

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG), the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), and Digital One, the UK's only national commercial digital radio network, today announced the availability of the META DBX-1, a single-chip DAB/Audio processor, developed under the...Read more

25 October 2001

STMicroelectronics' KYRO Family Accelerates Windows XP

PowerVR Technologies, a division of Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG), today announces the availability of new drivers for STMicroelectronics KYRO and KYRO II™ 3D Graphics Accelerators with full support for DirectX 8.1 and Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. This means that PC OEMs and system builders...Read more

17 October 2001

Technology Leaders to Enable DAB Digital Radio On-Demand Services

Three companies leading the development of digital radio technology - Command Audio, Digital One and Imagination Technologies - announced today that they have initiated a joint development program to enable on-demand audio applications on a new generation of single-chip digital radios.

2 October 2001

Imagination Technologies to Provide PowerVR Graphics for International Game Technology (IGT) Products

Imagination Technologies, the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), announces that it has been selected by International Game Technology (IGT), a world leader in slot machine and video gaming machine design and production, to bring enhanced PowerVR 3D video technology to...Read more

26 September 2001

Imagination Technologies Acquires Cross Products

Imagination Technologies Group plc has agreed to acquire the entire share capital of Cross Products Limited, a company specialising in designing and producing high-quality development tools for real-time embedded microprocessors and DSPs under the well-known CodeScape brand. CodeScape is best known as the...Read more

2 September 2001

PowerVR Technologies Announces Public PowerVR™ SDK

PowerVR Technologies a division of Imagination Technologies has announced the release of a public SDK (Software Development Kit) that will enable all software developers to produce games, applications and utilities optimised for PowerVR. The public SDK includes the majority of information contained in...Read more

26 June 2001

STMicroelectronics and Imagination Technologies Extend Partnership
To New Generations of PowerVR™ Technology

Kings Langley, England and Geneva, Switzerland, 26 June 2001 - Imagination Technologies Group (LSE: IMG), the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), and STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), a world leading supplier of system-on-chip solutions, today announced that they have extended...Read more

4 June 2001

Taipei, 4th June 2001 - PowerVR Technologies - a division of Imagination Technologies, the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), is pleased to report that leading PC Graphics Add-In-Board manufacturers are today announcing boards based on STMicroelectronics' critically...Read more

8 May 2001

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG), the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), today announced that it has significantly extended its IP offerings to cover Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technologies with the launch of its new Metagence Technologies division.

3 May 2001

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG), the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), today announces that it has significantly extended its IP offerings to cover digital signal processing (DSP) technologies with the launch of its new Metagence Technologies division.

9 April 2001

Imagination Technologies and Digital One Announce Major Step in Digital Radio Evolution

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG), the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), and Digital One, the UK's only national commercial digital radio network, today announced a strategic agreement that will lead to lower cost and more widely available digital radios.

12 March 2001

Crolles, France, and Pheonix, Arizona, March 12, 2001 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and Hercules (Euronext Paris, Guillemot - 6672) today announced that the two companies are working together to bring leading-edge PC graphics solutions to the market. The relationship brings together two companies with...Read more

12 March 2001

Geneva, March 12, 2001 - STMicroelectronics today unveiled its next generation KYRO II 3D Graphics Accelerator. Powered by PowerVR™ Tile Based Rendering (TBR) technology, KYRO II demonstrates clear performance leadership when compared with other products in its class on popular games and industry benchmarks....Read more

29 January 2001

Pace and Sega Announce Set-Top Box With Built In Dreamcast Architecture

Imagination Technologies is delighted to report that set-top box developer Pace Micro Technology and Sega Corporation today announced that they have agreed to jointly develop a set-top box home gateway with built-in Dreamcast architecture. The product utilises PowerVR Series2 graphics technology, developed...Read more

25 January 2001

Imagination Technologies and ARM Sign Strategic Agreement

KINGS LANGLEY, UK and CAMBRIDGE, UK: Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) and ARM (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY), the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor technology, today announced that they have signed a long term joint development agreement for the integration of PowerVR graphics...Read more

23 January 2001

Imagination Technologies Announces New Customers and Developments for ATEI 2001

Several customers will be showing arcade and gaming systems based on technologies from its PowerVR Technologies and VideoLogic Systems divisions at the ATEI 2001 show in at Earls Court, London from 23rd 25th January.

17 October 2000

Aristocrat Technologies to use PowerVR Technology in Casino Video Machines

PowerVR Technologies - a division of Imagination Technologies - has today announced that Aristocrat Technologies, the leading edge provider of entertaining and rewarding 'casino style' games of chance, has unveiled a new generation of video slot machines based on PowerVR Series2 technology, developed by...Read more

21 September 2000

NAOMI2, the arcade system developed by Sega and based on PowerVR graphics technology, debuts today at the 38th Amusement Machine Show in Tokyo. Naomi 2, the arcade system developed by Sega and based on PowerVR graphics technology, debuted today at the 38th Amusement Machine Show in Tokyo. Naomi 2 sets a...Read more

21 September 2000

Imagination Technologies Announces Revolutionary Digital Radio Tuner

VideoLogic Systems - a division of Imagination Technologies - today announces its VideoLogic Digital Radio Tuner DRX-601E which breaks the price barrier that has kept digital radio from achieving mass-market adoption with a RRP of just £299 (inc. VAT) - several hundred pounds less than typical DAB receivers...Read more

5 June 2000

PowerVR Technologies a division of Imagination Technologies announces that STMicroelectronics has today unveiled its revolutionary KYRO 3D graphics and video accelerator at Computex in Taipei. KYRO is the first full-featured PC graphics and video accelerator based on Imagination Technologies' PowerVR...Read more

25 May 2000

PowerVR Technologies a division of Imagination Technologies has today announced that it has completed development of a next generation graphics architecture for arcade systems.

The leading edge graphics technology has been developed as part of the continuing partnership between Sega, NEC Corporation...Read more

12 May 2000

Bleem Brings Playstation Games to Dreamcast

PowerVR Technologies a division of Imagination Technologies - is pleased to report that bleem, inc. has unveiled bleem! TM for Dreamcast, a new line of products which gives Sega Dreamcast owners the ability to play hundreds of titles originally written for the Sony PlayStation with Dreamcast-enhanced graphics...Read more

21 April 2000

Imagination Technologies Wins Two Queen's Awards

Imagination Technologies - the international company that develops, licenses and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics accelerator, video and audio technologies and products for PCs, games consoles, arcade entertainment machines and digital set-top boxes - has been awarded two Queen's Awards for Enterprise...Read more

24 March 2000

Imagination Technologies the international company that develops, licenses and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics, digital video, audio and speech technologies is pleased to report that CSK, Sega and Fuji Television Network (http://www.fujitv.co.jp) have announced a new multi function TV set incorporating...Read more

23 March 2000

Imagination Technologies Buys Ensigma

Imagination Technologies Group plc has agreed to acquire Ensigma, a private company specialising in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms and technologies for entertainment, communication and speech applications, with acknowledged experience and intellectual property (IP) in audio and speech processing.

23 March 2000

Imagination Technologies Buys Ensigma

Imagination Technologies Group plc has agreed to acquire the entire share capital of Ensigma Limited, a private company specialising in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms and technologies for entertainment, communication and speech applications, for a maximum consideration of £5.0 million, comprising...Read more

14 December 1999

PowerVR Receives Millennium Product Status

PowerVR Technologies a division of Imagination Technologies has today announced that its PowerVR 2D/3D graphics processor design has been granted Millennium Products status by the Design Council after Prime Minister Tony Blair challenged businesses to show that Britain is the creative powerhouse of the...Read more

22 October 1999

Ensigma's 'Mobile' Software Development Board

To develop and test functions for audio and mobile telecommunication applications, such as voice dialling, speech coders and audio coders (e.g. MP3), Ensigma have produced a stand-alone audio board based on the Hitachi SH3-DSP RISC processor. The SH3 is commonly used in Windows CE based applications, and...Read more

13 October 1999

Sega Dreamcast With PowerVR Series2 Technology Launches in Europe

Following a record-breaking success in Japan and the USA, Sega officially launches its new Dreamcast games console in Europe on October 14th 1999. Dreamcast uses unique PowerVR Series2 technology to produce state-of-the-art 3D graphics many times superior to other games consoles.

20 September 1999

NAOMI Ahead of the Game at Tokyo JAMMA

Naomi, the arcade system developed by Sega, and based on PowerVR Series2 Graphics Technology, was the dominant arcade platform at this year's JAMMA (Japanese Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association) Show in Tokyo according to reports in the international media. The show took place from 9th 12th September...Read more

30 June 1999

VideoLogic PowerVR Used in Next Generation Set-top Box Development Platform

VideoLogic the international company that develops, designs and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics, video and audio technologies and products today said that its PowerVR 3D graphics technology will be used in the next generation Microsoft TV set-top box development platform from STMicroelectronics...Read more

26 May 1999

Wireless and Telecommunications Focus for ARC/Ensigma Partnership

London, 26 May 1999 - ARC Cores (London) and Ensigma Limited (Chepstow) have formed an alliance to provide high performance, silicon-efficient, fast-to-market solutions for wireless and telecoms applications such as audio codecs, GSM speech codecs, speech recognisers and other IP blocks. Ensigma has already...Read more

25 May 1999

Ensigma Announce Patented Background Noise Cancellation Technique

How do you control a radio using speech recognition when it's playing in the background? Over the last few years speech recognisers have been designed to cope with relatively steady background noises such as car or aircraft noise, but sounds such as music or other speech can upset them.

8 April 1999

8 April 1999 WinHEC, Los Angeles, CA. VideoLogic the international company that develops, designs and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics accelerator and audio products today announced that it has agreed a partnership with STMicroelectronics which will license VideoLogic's PowerVR 2D/3D graphics technology...Read more

8 April 1999

VideoLogic Group Plc (VideoLogic), the international multimedia and graphics company, today announced that it has agreed a strategic partnership with STMicroelectronics (formerly known as SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics) to license VideoLogic's PowerVR 2D/3D graphics technology for the development and manufacture...Read more

23 March 1999

Ensigma were delighted to be invited to present at the first DSPG workshop for SMARTCoreTM Licensees. Organised by Ichiro Fukuma, Head of Sales at DSPG Japan, this is the first in a series of international workshops to enable DSPG core licensees access to up to the minute information of developments in their...Read more

18 March 1999

VideoLogic Demonstrates Multi-Platform PowerVR at CeBIT

VideoLogic the international company that develops, designs and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics accelerator and audio products for PCs, games consoles and arcade entertainment machines is showing its PowerVR Series2 technology running on all three major games platforms at CeBIT 99 in Hannover...Read more

8 October 1998

Ensigma announced today the completion of its Enhanced Variable Rate codec (EVRC) IS-127 implementation for DSP Group's OakDSPCore . The EVRC codec is used in the IS-95 CDMA system offering enhanced speech quality compared to the original 8k QCELP vocoder. EVRC is also to be used in the Japanese W-CDMA and...Read more

15 April 1998

Ensigma Ltd Develops AC-3 Decoder Software on DSP Group's OAKDSPCore

Ensigma announced today the completion of its Dolby AC-3 decoder implementation for DSP Group's OakDSPCore . Steven Roberts at Ensigma said ";We are the only company we are aware of to be offering a Dolby qualified solution for the OakDSPCore";. Clifford Parris, head of the coding group, said ";our initial...Read more

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